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If inflation continues to soar, you're going to have to work like a dog just to live like one. ~George Gobel



Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Harry found the tea... seemed to burn away a little of the fear fluttering in his chest. ~J.K. Rowling



Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage. ~Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly



Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. ~Proverbs 15:17



People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing. ~Will Rogers



A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it. ~Henry Wheeler Shaw



It is always the secure who are humble. ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton



Republicans are against abortion until their daughters need one, Democrats are for abortion until their daughter wants one. ~Grace McGarvie



There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart. ~Blaise Pascal



God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs



A married daughter with children puts you in danger of being catalogued as a first edition. ~Author Unknown



The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign. ~Primo Levi



A meow massages the heart. ~Stuart McMillan



The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Impressions arriving at the brain make it enter into activity, just as food falling into the stomach excites it to more abundant secretion of gastric juice. ~Pierre Cabanis, translated from French



The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. ~Gloria Leonard



But as young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature, so knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth; but when it once is comprehended in exact methods, it may, perchance, be further polished, and illustrate and accommodated for use and practice, but it increaseth no more in bulk and substance. ~Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning



To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. ~Bertrand Russell



Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food. ~Austin O'Malley